Shaking up immunity: Psychological and immunologic changes after a natural disaster

Psychosomatic Medicine

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 114-127

  Solomon, George F ^a,c   Segerstrom, Suzanne C ^a   Grohr, Peter ^b   Kemeny, Margaret ^a   Fahey, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

earthquake; immunity; natural disaster; naturalistic stress; psychoneuroimmunology

Indexed keywords

CD16 ANTIGEN; CD3 ANTIGEN; CD56 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ; POKEWEED MITOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; DISASTER; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EARTHQUAKE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STRESS; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0031002061     PISSN: 00333174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006842-199703000-00002     Document Type: Article

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